Spectrum Chamber Music Society
2023-2024 Concert Dates
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October 23 at 7:30pm - Spectrum East
4 FOR ALL – An Evening of Quartets
Monday, October 23, 2023, at 7:30pm
All Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist
1959 Sandy Lane, Fort Worth, Texas 76122
Free Admission—Donations Accepted
From the Impressionistic charm of Claude Debussy to the unbridled joy of Gioachino Rossini to the technical fireworks of Giuseppe Verdi, our season opener is all about the quartet. It’s going to be quite an exciting journey!
PROGRAMClaude Debussy: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor
Nikayla Kim and Albert Yamamoto, violins
Dan Sigale, viola
Keira Fullerton, cello
Gioachino Rossini: Wind Quartet No. 6 in F Major
Gabriel Fridkis, flute
Ivan Petruzziello, clarinet
Cara Owens, bassoon
Gerry Wood, horn
Verdi: String Quartet in E Minor
Jennifer Betz and Molly Baer, violins
Dmitry Kustanovich, viola
Allan Steele, cello
October 30 at 7:00pm - Spectrum Downtown
LOOPING BACK
Monday October 30, 2023 at 7:00pm
Leonard Memorial Chapel
First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth
800 W 5th Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Take a musical trip back in time with Spectrum. as we perform music spanning almost 100 years.
We will start this program with Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s hypnotic duet, Spiegel im Spiegel, originally written for violin and piano, but at some point performed by just about every instrument with piano—this time on the viola.
Next we’ll travel almost 50 years into the past to hear Ralph Vaughan Williams’ virtuosic Oboe Concerto, featuring FWSO Principal Oboe Jennifer Lucio, in a sneak preview of her performance of the piece with the orchestra next March.
We will eventually land at the end of the 19th Century with Claude Debussy’s beloved masterpiece, his String Quartet in G Minor (in a repeat performance from the October 23 concert).
PROGRAM
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)
Dan Sigale, viola Peggy Graff, piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra (arr. piano) (1944)
Jennifer Lucio, oboe
Michael Bukhman, piano
Claude Debussy: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 10 (1893)
Nikayla Kim and Albert Yamamoto, violin
Dan Sigale, viola
Keira Fullerton, cello
February 12 at 7:30pm – Spectrum East
March 4 at 7:00pm – Spectrum Downtown
Hold your breath; we’re diving deeper.
April 8 at 7:30pm – Spectrum East
Don’t touch that dial, there’s more ahead.
May 20 at 7:00pm – Spectrum Downtown (Gala)
FWSO Music Director Laureate and Fort Worth favorite Miguel Harth-Bedoya makes his Spectrum return next May, conducting our fine musicians in a performance of the Suite from Aaron Copland’s seminal ballet, Appalachian Spring, in its original instrumentation for thirteen instruments: flute, clarinet, bassoon, four violins, two violas, two cellos, bass and keyboard. This evocative and gorgeous mainstay of 20th Century classical music will be part of a concert of American chamber music on May 20, 2024 at First United Methodist Church in downtown Fort Worth. (Other exciting selections will be announced soon.)